Brothers and Sisters and Motherfuckers
VERTititGO
Escape From the Famiily Home
Oh, Death
Bags
Deep Feelings
Baby
Hell in a Handbag
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Short Works / Clips (good ones)

Brothers and SIsters and Motherfuckers
2010
58 min

photos by Liz Ligouri

This year Dynasty Handbag is hosting the family holiday dinner that is sure to be a messy mash up of passive-aggression, fart jokes, personality meltdowners. Everyone has something to bring to the table, and when all become deathly ill after greedily scarfing up, all are suspect of bringing in the virus. But who is the motherfucker who would infect everyone? It must be DH...she is the HOST after all. Find out when a family secret is revealed and an antidote must be found...or else! Using live performance and 4 on-stage video screen projections of family members, all performed by Ms Handbag, BSMF is a tour de farce of comedic acting skills as well as a film editors nightmare.

Written, Performed and Directed : Jibz Cameron
Camera, Video Edit, Animation: Amy Von Harrington
Sound Mix : A.V. Linton
Projection and Set Design: Lauren Brown
Costumes: Hayden Dunham
Hair n' Makeup: Holli Smith

VERTititGO
2010
53 min

Dynasty Handbag returns to the stage with sluethful vengeance as “Detective Bags" who is on the search for a missing woman, or is it every woman...or could she is the very woman she is looking for? Inverting film noir tropes and Hitchockian formula, Verititgo stars Dynasty Handbag as the lady dick without a clue, and meets herself in all the characters along the way...a demented femme fatale, a bitter fortune teller, an astronaut/waitress, a professional boxer, a disillusioned flower and a wise but stupid bear. Vertititgo is a tale about the way we look for things and the things that are worth looking for and how the two things rarely meet.

Escape From The Family Home
2009
56 min
DH...trying to sleep in the family house but there is anxiety so great it wakes Dynasty Handbag. She hears the patriarch coming up the driveway, his tires crunching the gravel. There is no where to hide, every room is a disaster. To whence should she escape? Through the upstairs! To the neighbor, to the closet, to poetry, to fame, to the city, the forest, where shall she gain back her power? Through violence, make-believe, cigarettes, fantasy....where!!!!??? All of the above.

selected performance dates
The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York(excerpt)
The Lab, San Francisco (video footage taken at The Lab)
Dixon Place, NY, NY

Bags
2008

This is the story of DH hopping through an emotional minefield of 5 bags on the floor all talking, wanting, needing, unrelenting. The brown paper one is used, sexy, persuasive and oh so tiring after a long bout of fisting. The black one is so demanding, yet keeps changing it's mind and speaks deeply and rudely. The whispy whilte wants only to watch, watch as you dance for her... says dance for me! The blue one has a rotten cockney accent and becomes suicidal at the thought of abandonment. These bags seem so familiar. DH blindly goes from bag to bag, looking for that special something. This clip shows the white bag playing a ruthless choreographer - eventually turning her into Mick Jagger with a dagger, which is what is seen in this clip. to view full performance click HERE.



written and performed by Jibz Cameron
creative consultant, Pascale Gatzen
music by Dynasty Handbag, The Rolling Stones
17 min

Dance Theater Workshop, NY, NY (premier)
Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA
The Kitchen, NY
Vortex Reperetory Theater, Austin, TX

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Oh, Death
2008
15 min

DH gets so frustrated with herself she shoots herself in the face. Guilt forces her to visit herself in the hospital and plan her own funeral.



written and performed by Jibz Cameron
video by Hedia Maron
music by Dynasty Handbag

performance dates:
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY
Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA

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Deep Feelings
2007
30 min

Dynasty Handbag revisits some icky childhood sexual adventures and it's influence on aduit relationships and internalized homophobia. A Dr. Phillis keeps inturrupting her process with criticism and bad advice. Along the journey she rapes her house cat, meets an octopus with a knife, is tempted into a warm cave by a lion who makes her vaccuum, a sweet and unintelligable sea horse, and moleststs a teen slut passed out on a picnic table, which is what is seen in this clip.



written, performed and video edit by Jibz Cameron
music by Dynasty Handbag, Prince, Too $hort

Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA
DIxon Place, NY, NY

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Baby
2006
60 min

Dynasty Handbag gives birth to an unwanted unruly baby represented by a plastic bag with a red light inside that flashes when it talks. The baby will not let Dynasty Handbag work, won't eat what Dynasty Handbag feeds it, has nightmares that will not let her rest, and is critical of her creative process. After a spastic brawl, the baby finally leaves on its own accord. Dynasty Handbag is free, yet still hears the echo of the baby's voice in the midst of trying desperately to live a normal life, ummm normal.






written, performed, video edit by Jibz Cameron
Music by Dyansty Handbag, Genuine, Sergio Mendez

performance dates:
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

Hell In A Handbag
2006
30 min

Dynasty Handbag's journey through hell.





written, performed, video edit by Jibz Cameron
Music by Dynasty Handbag, Black Sabbath

performance dates
PS122, NY (premier), w/ Nao Bustamante
Vassar Collage, Poughkeepsie, NY
Dixon Place, NY w/ Faye Driscoll

Short Live Clips
various dates, times, places, moods, desires

Santa Baby ESP TV, Merry Xmas, Mary Boom 2012	"Party" Our Hit Parade, Joe's Pub 2012	I'm Afraid PS1, NY 2011
Come On 2010 Triple Canopy	Get Dressed Aurora Picture Show, Houston 2008	I Can't Wait Transmodern Festival, Baltimore, MD 2008
Soup Eyes Galapagos Art Sapce, NY 2006 (I think this is my personal favorite)	Life Would Be Easier If We Didn't Have Feelings Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco 2004	In My Dreams Hemlock Tavern, SF 2003